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China Anne McClain (born August 25, 1998) is an American actress and singer. McClain's career began when she was seven years old, portraying Alexis in the film The Gospel (2005), and then China James in Daddy's Little Girls (2007). She then received recognition for starring as Jazmine Payne in the television series Tyler Perry's House of Payne (2007–2012; 2020–present) and as Charlotte McKenzie in the film Grown Ups (2010); and became internationally known for starring as Chyna Parks in the Disney Channel television series A.N.T. Farm (2011–2014), and as Uma in the Disney Channel films Descendants 2 (2017) and Descendants 3 (2019). In 2018, McClain began starring in The CW superhero series Black Lightning (2018–2021) as Jennifer Pierce / Lightning. She also reprised her character Jazmine Payne on OWN's revival of The Paynes (2018). McClain began her musical career in 2005 as a member of the sister girl group the 3mcclaingirls with her sisters Sierra and Lauryn. Her first professional single was "Your Biggest Fan" with Nick Jonas on the soundtrack album Jonas L.A. (2010). In 2011, McClain signed with Hollywood Records both as a solo artist and with her sister girl group, known as the McClain Sisters. Her debut single as a solo artist was "Dynamite" which peaked at no. 2 on the US Kid Digital Songs, and her second single, "Calling All the Monsters", peaked at no. 1 on the same chart and earned 25,000 downloads within its first week of release. The A.N.T. Farm soundtrack album spent five weeks on the Billboard Kids chart in 2011 and sold 14,000 copies in its first week of release. Billboard also named her the sixth best-selling artist for digital kids' songs in 2012. In 2017, her single "What's My Name" from Descendants 2 peaked on several Billboard charts, and was certified gold, with 500,000 units sold, on November 10, 2017. In June 2020 her sister girl group changed their name to Thriii.
She was raised in House Tyrell. She survived the Red Wedding. She kept the North's hope alive when everyone else thought it was dead. Set in the second phase of the War of the Five Kings (~300-302 AC) — from the Red Wedding through the war's eventual exhausted conclusion — The Broken Realm follows Elara Tyrell, 27, a Black woman raised within House Tyrell of Highgarden as a ward and the household's chief intelligence coordinator. She is entirely of the Reach — she speaks with the Reach's warmth, understands its political traditions, and has been formed by the Tyrell household's specific combination of social grace and absolute political calculation. When the Red Wedding destroys the Northern cause and reshapes the entire war, Elara's connections to multiple factions — she has cultivated relationships across all five kings' camps through the Tyrell's marriage strategy — make her the series' political engine. Her relationship with Lucas of the Brotherhood Without Banners — a knight who serves no king but refuses to stop being one — is the series' central romance: two people trying to find something worth protecting when kingdoms are falling. S1E1 — After the Red Wedding The Reach learning what happened at the Twins. Elara's face. Her calculation of what the Tyrell position now requires. S1E8 — Lucas's Fire Elara encountering the Brotherhood Without Banners. Lucas and Elara's first conversation — she asks him what he believes in. He says he'll tell her when he figures it out. S2E12 — The Last Rose Series finale: The war's exhausted conclusion. Elara's network intact, her information the most complete record of what actually happened across all five king's camps. She burns half of it. The half she keeps will matter.
